On Tuesday, Stephen McNeil and Robert Strang gave more details on how the vaccination program in Nova Scotia will roll-out. “We will have a distribution network quite frankly, that I think will be the envy of the country,” McNeil said. Public health is working with Doctors Nova Scotia and the Pharmacists Association of Nova Scotia […]
Victoria Walton
Victoria was a full-time reporter with The Coast from April 2020 until mid-2022, when the CBC lured her away. During her Coast tenure, she covering everything from COVID-19 to small business to politics and social justice. Originally from the Annapolis Valley, she graduated from the University of King’s College School of Journalism in 2017.
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Strang isn’t mad, he’s just disappointed
There are currently 32 active cases of COVID-19 in Nova Scotia. Not bad compared to other provinces and the rest of the world, but our top doc still has some concerns about how the public is responding. “It’s been recently brought to my attention that in a few of our ongoing investigations by public health, […]
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Jagger’s Cafe is always fresh with made-to-order donuts
The “donut robot” at Jagger’s Cafe can churn out over 700 donuts an hour. “On a busy day the machine doesn’t stop,” says Jagger Winterbourne, co-owner and namesake of the Bayer’s Lake spot that first opened in March of last year. Batter gets poured into the top of the small but mighty donut machine, which then […]
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Halifax dance studio struggling after third renoviction
Since first opening in Halifax in 2011, Serpentine Studios has moved to three different locations. Now, the dance studio is once again a nomad in the rental landscape of HRM, searching for a permanent space that fits all its needs. “We need a space that’s large, a good amount of square footage for dance. We […]
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Chain restaurants received an estimated $1.7 million of Nova Scotia’s ‘small business grants’
According to data released in December by the Nova Scotia government, the province gave out a total of $8.4 million to restaurants who applied for the first two rounds of Covid aid funding. The two grants given out by the province were the Small Business Impact Grant, which was first announced in April 2020, and […]
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New Brunswick kicked out of Nova Scotia’s Atlantic bubble
Starting Saturday morning at 8am, January 9, anyone travelling from New Brunswick to Nova Scotia must isolate for 14 days upon their arrival, and starting now, anyone who was in New Brunswick in the last two weeks should call 811 to book a test—regardless of symptoms. “Our case numbers are improving in Nova Scotia and […]
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Nova Scotia hopes to vaccinate 75 percent of population by September 30
The Nova Scotia government gave more details on the COVID-19 vaccine roll-out program in Nova Scotia on Tuesday. With both the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines approved by Health Canada, the province is aiming to vaccinate up to 10,000 people per day by mid-May. That’s a fair stretch of time since the first vaccine clinics at […]
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7 Peppers Grill to return to Quinpool Road
When Hekmat Ani and her husband Abdul Jabi brought a Syrian restaurant to Halifax over a decade ago, they started on Quinpool Road. Four locations later, and they’re back, just a block down from their original location. “We have a lot of customer history, since the first branch, since 2008 they are in Halifax, and […]
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Halifax bars and restaurants permitted to re-open January 4
Thursday afternoon’s Covid update in Nova Scotia contained an announcement Haligonians weren’t expecting until late next week, at the earliest: Halifax restaurants are allowed to re-open. The news release said that because of “low case numbers over the holidays” licensed establishments in HRM and select parts of Hants county that had a previous spike in […]
